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Before I take all my DVDs and spend 2-3 hours each encoding them, what is the universal codec? I'm going to buy a Cowan A2 and I know that it supports most codecs. Sometime in the future I may want to buy another PVP and I just wanted to know what codec is largely supported and is more future proof than the others? Is it Divx or Mpeg4? I have heard much about those two are is thier another?

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